White University Student Called ‘Cracker,’ Bias Response Team Ignores
“I hope in the future, the University enforces its rules equally and justly.”
2.27.2018
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A white conservative student at North Carolina’s Wake Forest University challenged his school’s bias response team over unequal treatment after he was slandered with a racist term that they decided wasn’t worthy of opening a case.
Senior Ryan Wolfe was a participant in a conservative panel just before the 2016 election where he was mocked as a “cracker” and called a “mayonnaise monster lookin ass” by leftist students. His face was photoshopped onto a cracker and posted on social media and he was gifted a box of saltine crackers after the event. Running the cracker comparisons straight into the ground, social justice warriors also mocked the other members of the panel, who were also white, with a picture of four crackers captioned “loving the lineup.”
Wake Forest’s bias response team is supposed to enforce the school’s stated racial harassment rules and hear cases of verbal abuse that is “obscene, profane, or derogatory” or speech or actions that are “motivated by the race or any other defining characteristic of an individual.” However, when Wolfe brought the evidence before the team it was rejected.
Wolfe said he’s all for the free speech rights of students but had a feeling the bias response team would be biased against claims from white students and so he brought his case forward:
“I support the free speech rights of students, but in this case, I wanted to see if the school would enforce their rules surrounding verbal and abuse equally regardless of who was involved in the case. I knew that similar rhetoric about the identity of other groups would not be tolerated.”
The bias team told Wolfe that there would be no action taken and they cited if they pursued the matter it would “make things worse” for him, according to Wake Forest Review. The committee actually excused the students actions and have since told Wolfe they only acted out because “Trump won.” However, Wolfe noted that the GOP event he was involved with occurred over a week before election day.
It has become clear to Wolfe and other conservative students that the very committee meant to root out bigotry and discrimination on campus inserts its own biases among the members when looking at cases. If it doesn’t fit with the left-leaning beliefs of the committee, it isn’t considered. Had these derogatory comments been aimed at a minority student, Wolfe is convinced the bias team would’ve have pursued it no questions asked.
“I hope in the future, the University enforces its rules equally and justly,” said Wolfe. “If Wake Forest truly wants to create a vibrant intellectual environment free from verbal abuse and harassment, individuals must be held to the same standard, regardless of their identity or national political events.”
“If this is what social justice looks like in practice, we cannot let this ideology infect our judicial system,” Wolfe told The Daily Caller.
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